President Barack Obama on Tuesday asked congressional leaders to meet with him Wednesday as he considers his options in Iraq.

Administration officials tell us the president will make the case for sending a limited number of special forces troops to Iraq.

The president had insisted he did not want to put boots on the ground in the newly flaring conflict but now believes special forces are necessary to develop better intelligence on the Sunni insurgents should airstrikes be ordered.

The only thing that needs to be done is to order all our people out and to blow to kingdom come any and all assets left behind.

The destruction of American assets will send a message to these crazy islamics that we do mean business and we are NOT afraid to deny them anything and everything! Forward is not the direction we should be moving in ...it is a strategic retreat at the present time that is warranted.

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posted on 06/17/2014 6:31:34 PM PDT
by EBH
(And the head wound was healed, and Gog became man.)

But didn’t he just make the case for taking boots off the ground? He’s like a weather vane, yet the media dutifully reports this without any reference to the dozens of contradictory policies he “made the case for” before this one.

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posted on 06/17/2014 6:38:10 PM PDT
by Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")

I don’t think that another American Serviceman/woman should shed their blood over there. Of course, I have no say so either way about what happens. There are some that are extremely eager to shed the blood of others over there. Of course, them and theirs are safe and comfortable in their air conditioned mansions and attending their coke parties.

Please do not allow our soldiers to go into battle under this administration. They will end up in deadly bloody battles we have not seen the like of in decades. All the decent top brass have been purged from their ranks and the idiot on the hill does not have a clue.

Amateur hour / day / week / term at the Whitehouse. Actually think the military has let him know 275 is not going to be enough to do anything but be killed, and hopefully the adults have enabled zero to avoid continuing his mistakes that are killing Americans. God help our soldiers.

Today’s Washington Post Express reports that 170 Special Forces are already in Iraq and another 100 on standby. It was said their limited mission, not yet approved, would be training and advising. And so it begins.

The Kenyan over ruled the Pentagon in 2011 to position him for the 2012 election, and dithered in January when the Iraq/Syria border was collapsing. When events called on presidential leadership, he was golfing, opening our borders, bitching about minimum wage, destroying the coal industry, raising money, and killing jobs.

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posted on 06/17/2014 7:57:28 PM PDT
by Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)

The president will not, we are told, present a prepackaged decision to congressional leaders but will instead seek consensus.

He wants congress to go along with his cockamamy plan to he can blame it on them when it fails.

Obama ignored the advice of military leaders when he drew down the troops in Iraq so precipitously. Now he's reaping the results of that folly.

Soldiers who risked their lives in Iraq only to have the country return to chaos have the right to feel betrayed. How committed are they going to be to any efforts in Iraq directed by Obama? Obama has squandered the trust of our men and women in uniform.

Folks the ISIS folks are bad news and with more than a billion dollars they sure as hell can create terrorism in the USA. I have no use for peace in our time bath house Barack.

That being said we need to start killing these ISIS folks as effectively and surely as possible. I spent 6 years in the middle-eat and not with the “peace corp”. I know first hand what we are facing. This is Al Qaeda on steroids. They will NOT be satisfied with a Caliphate in the Levant. They will come to Europe, the US and perhaps other locales. because we must either convert, pay the tax and or die. That is it.

So, as much as 275 Spec Ops, they can verify targets of opportunity for air support. I have Christian, Shia and Sunni Iraqi whom I chat with almost daily, both dislike Obama as much as Maliki. Whether the Iraqi end up with a 3 state solution or what, is not as important as total as possible destruction of ISIS members.

We need some assets there and frankly our Spec ops people never left completely. I respect these warriors and they will do what needs to be done. Thats the game and the job.

We must remember that Maliki rejected the status of forces agreement, and it was because we would not agree to have our troops remaining there be subject to the Iraq justice system. What would you have done??

Regarding the story I mentioned, try Googling Washington Post Express, today, Tuesday, like I would have to do.

So can we and that word needs to get out pronto. I'm completely fine with the whole sale slaughter of muslims on American soil. You can capitulate with your muzzie buddies overseas and get that message out while you're at it.

/Know where the mosque's are in your area people; that is the local command and control and that is a primary target for YOU.

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posted on 06/17/2014 8:48:08 PM PDT
by Ghost of SVR4
(So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)

The only training the Special Forces needs is to target practice any camel jockey with a gun (whether Shititatite or Sunnitite), and the only advising needing done is to advise all Americans to get out now.

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